Nicolas Philibert

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Nicolas Philibert (French: [filibɛʁ]; born 10 January 1951) is a French documentary filmmaker. He has directed films since 1978. At the 73rd Berlinale (2023), he receives the Golden Bear for his film "On the Adamant". Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth. This encouraged him to embark on a film career. He started this with René Allio (1970), as a trainee on Les Camisards as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973) and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975). In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice, in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions. Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992), Un animal, des animaux (1995), La Moindre des choses (1996) - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (1998). In 2001, Nicolas Philibert made Être et avoir, about daily life in a single class school on a small village in the Auvergne. It won the Prix Louis Delluc 2002, and became a box office and critical success in France and internationally. The film was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. With Retour en Normandie (2007), he revisited the traces of a previous films, made thirty years earlier by René Allio, with local peasants playing the lead roles. With Nénette (2010), made at the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, he produced an intimated portrait of the most famous of its inhabitants a female orang-utang, Nénette, held in captivity for 36 years. La Maison de la radio (2013), takes us into the heart of the French Radio headquarters in Paris, finding out who inhabits the place and discovering the mysteries of its long corridors. Over the last fifteen years there have been more than 120 retrospectives or 'homages' to Philibert organised internationally including the British Film Institute (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). He was one of the directors invited to nominate his favourite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 poll. He explains, in French, his motivations, his influences (including Agnés Varda) and the history of his career as a documentary film maker, especially the 'impermeable' frontiers between documentary and drama in an interview recorded in April 2012.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1951-01-10
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Directing
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  • info Birth Place Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
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Back to Normandy

2007-10-03

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Back to Normandy

2007-10-03

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To Be and to Have

2002-08-28

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To Be and to Have

2002-08-28

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Trilogy for One Man

1987-08-03

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Louvre City

1990-11-21

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In the Land of the Deaf

1992-11-25

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Nénette

2010-03-31

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Every Little Thing

1997-03-05

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La Maison de la Radio

2013-04-03

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Louvre City

1990-11-21

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Animals and More Animals

1994-12-01

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Animals and More Animals

1994-12-01

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Christophe

1985-01-01

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The North Face of the Camembert

1985-12-18

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Go Ahead, Baby!

1988-01-01

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Baquet's Comeback

1988-01-01

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We, France's Undocumented Immigrants

1997-04-01

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The Invisible

2002-09-04

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Louvre City

1990-11-21

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His Master's Voice

1978-02-22

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At Averroès & Rosa Parks

2024-03-20

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To Be and to Have

2002-08-28

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To Be and to Have

2002-08-28

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In the Land of the Deaf

1992-11-25

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Every Little Thing

1997-03-05

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The Typewriter and Other Headaches

2024-04-17

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On the Adamant

2023-03-22

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On the Adamant

2023-03-22

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On the Adamant

2023-03-22

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On the Adamant

2023-03-22

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Metamorphosis of a Building

1994-01-01

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Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo

2009-01-01

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Nénette

2010-03-31

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In the Skin of a Badger

1994-01-01

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France Culture au Festival d'Avignon: 'Forcenés'

2013-01-01

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Les 18 du 57, Boulevard de Strasbourg

2014-05-12

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Family Portraits

1994-01-01

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Metamorphosis of a Building

1994-01-01

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What Drives the Taxidermist

2002-01-01

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The Screening

2010-01-01

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La nuit du court 2011

2011-01-01

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La Maison de la Radio

2013-04-03

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The Measure of the Feat

1987-01-01

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Family Portraits

1994-01-01

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Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo

2009-01-01

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Y'a quelqu'un?

2018-01-01

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Night Falls on the Menagerie

2010-01-01

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In the Skin of a Badger

1994-01-01

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No Problem

1986-01-01

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Emmanuelle Laborit, Sign Shards

2002-01-01

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Joël comme Collado

2013-01-01

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Patrons 78-91

1991-01-01

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La nuit du court 2011

2011-01-01

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Pour Catherine

1995-01-01

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France Culture au Festival d'Avignon: 'Forcenés'

2013-01-01

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The Screening

2010-01-01

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What Drives the Taxidermist

2002-01-01

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Nénette

2010-03-31

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Every Little Thing

1997-03-05

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The Invisible

2002-09-04

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His Master's Voice

1978-02-22

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What Drives the Taxidermist

2002-01-01

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Night Falls on the Menagerie

2010-01-01

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The Screening

2010-01-01

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La Maison de la Radio

2013-04-03

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Night Falls on the Menagerie

2010-01-01

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Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo

2009-01-01

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Nénette

2010-03-31

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Who Knows?

1999-09-01

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Each and Every Moment

2018-08-29

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Joël comme Collado

2013-01-01

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Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo

2009-01-01

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Every Little Thing

1997-03-05

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Patrons 78-91

1991-01-01

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Nénette's Birthday

2020-01-01

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At Averroès & Rosa Parks

2024-03-20

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At Averroès & Rosa Parks

2024-03-20

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A Tale of the Wind

1989-03-19

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Each and Every Moment

2018-08-29

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The Wonderful Crook

1974-01-01

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Who Knows?

1999-09-01

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Each and Every Moment

2018-08-29

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Each and Every Moment

2018-08-29

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Night Falls on the Menagerie

2010-01-01

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I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother…

1976-10-27

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Patrons - Télévision

1979-04-18

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Patrons - Télévision

1979-04-18

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And How Are Things with You?

1989-01-01

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Les Carnets De L'Aventure

1977-01-01

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La faute à Rousseau

2012-01-01